ML532663661
honeyguide sp. Indicatoridae sp.
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Unknown age, Unknown sex - 1
- Sounds
- Call; Song
- Playback
- Playback used
Media notes
Two cuts, the first natural, the second after playback, of what we were convinced at the time (seeing it well after playback) was a Spotted (as opposed to a Scaly-throated) Honeyguide. It was calling from good forest at the farthest point of our birding along the Kirumya Creek trail into Semuliki Forest, at 3:00pm, just before we headed back. The annotation was made after the first cut--before we had super looks at it. There seem to be two birds calling in the second cut; I don’t know if the more distant one was another individual of the same species or not. Having researched the vocalizations of Spotted (and Scaly-throated) Honeyguides, I've developed doubts about our ID of the bird vocalizing. I sent the recording to Terry Stevenson, who responded that he had never heard either of those two species make this type vocalization...that it was "more like songs of Thick-billed or Least, and perhaps even Willcocks’s, but that species normally has a short introductory note, not present in your recording". He related how he has often had a different honeyguide come in after playback of one species--raising the possibility of the two-bird theory as being not uncommon with honeyguides. So, I'm changing the ID of this cut to a "honeyguide sp." rather than Spotted. Recorded using a Sony Minidisc Walkman MZ-R70 with a Sennheiser ME67 & foam windscreen.
Technical information
- Recorder
- Sony Minidisc Walkman MZ-R70
- Microphone
- Sennheiser ME67
- Accessories
- foam windscreen
- Original file size
- 18.18 MB